Thursday, January 22, 2015

Hope



picture credit: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Scars-120868491

An aberrant line, etched across the whiteness of her skin,
a map of self-destruction and continual conflict.
Yet every dawn finds her looking towards tomorrow
with an absolute expectancy that the cradle of her dreams
lies just beyond the illuminated horizon.



13 comments:

  1. "Absolute expectancy" ..this phrase is going to haunt me a while now...
    As usual, you've written amazing!

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  2. I feel the pain and longing. Hauntingly beautiful, Shadow.

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  3. The jagged edge of life will always meander forward.
    Very nice as always

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  4. i am glad she still struggles forward...despite the scars of the journey so far...
    they can take you...or you can accept them....i hope she finds her dreams....

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  5. Some Oil of Olay should help with that dry skin.

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  6. How beautiful,made me to think what if we relate it to our life.

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  7. so beautiful… sometimes hope frightens me, and other times it is indeed a balm the heals the surface cracks and broken places deep within.

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  8. Beautifully emotive and written with lots of emotion and feeling...

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  9. hello shadow its dennis the vizsla dog hay i hav herd that hope springs eternal is it troo??? frum the wurds i think so but frum the pikcher i am not so shoor!!! ok bye

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